A modern ghost story that turns a love-hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror.
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BOOvie Night: Frightening Flicks to Watch at Home
'Tis the season for thrills and chills. The movies on this list are guaranteed to give you the creeps. Some are classics, some are new, all are horror.
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- Recent widower Shigeharu Aoyama is advised by his son to find a new wife. Shigeharu agrees seeks the advice of a colleague who takes advantage of their position in a film company to stage an audition. After interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu…
- Laurel moves to L.A. and falls in with a gang of vampires. Not knowing if they want to kill her, befriend her or turn her, she learns to understand the love and dangers of her new and first group of friends.
- The college town of Bedford is receiving an unwelcome guest this Christmas. As the residents of sorority house Pi Kappa Sigma prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to stalk the house.
- One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow Up), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator… or does he? As he takes on…
- Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a disturbed adolescent from a semi-functional, upper-middle class family, gifted with a sharp intellect and vivid imagination - but he's also a bit weird. Donnie's off his medication and when his boredom is…
- Rose, a mostly sweet and lonely small-town driving instructor must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame.…
- Seven-year-old Chloe lives in both fear under her father's protective and paranoid control and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's…
- After witnessing a shocking crime, a young rock band is unexpectedly thrust into a life-or-death battle to escape the clutches of a diabolical club owner and his ruthless henchmen in this white-knuckle thriller. Official Selection at the Cannes Film…
- A true classic of suspense, this spooky, campy tale tells the story of five strangers who are offered $10,000 each by an eccentric millionaire to spend the night in a haunted house. As the night develops, it becomes clear that these strangers'…
- Lonely, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates. A new friendship develops when Eli, a pale, serious young girl who only comes out at night, moves in next door. Coinciding with her arrival is a series of inexplicable…
- Four siblings move to America with their mother to escape a troubled past. When she dies, they vow to stay together, no matter what. But when a ghostly presence torments what's left of their family and a lawyer threatens their pact, the four must…
- An American couple, their relationship floundering, travel to a fabled Swedish midsummer festival where they become trapped in a sinister nightmare.
- Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the town's most unsavory inhabitants. But…
- When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter Annie (Toni Collette) begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more she discovers, the more her family finds themselves trying…
- A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour.
- Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Wismar where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula…
- A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering on the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
- When four teenagers all meet mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching a videotape, investigative reporter Rachel Keller tracks down the video... and watches it.
- A teenager's claim that she was victimized by a secret society of her peers whips up hysteria and throws their town into the national spotlight.
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